Transportation is Our Only Focus
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TriumphPayand Intelligent Audit provide Freight Spend Management services to Fortune 500 and major logistics companies globally.
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Services include freight audit, carrier payments and supply chain finance products.
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TriumphPayand Intelligent Audit are API integrated to deliver superior visibility to freight spend, carrier performance and network optimization metrics.
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Financing solutions allow shippers to conserve cash and improve liquidity through extended DPO while allowing carriers toget paidsoonerthan under standard payment terms.
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TriumphPay is an operating subsidiary of TBK Bank, SSB (Nasdaq: TBK, Member FDIC).
As a regulated financial institution, TriumphPayprovides shippers with the security and safety of funds movement that is delivered only through a bank.
Freight Audit & Payment Key Processes
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Freight Rating
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Rate maintenance and uploading of carrier rate sheets and agreements
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Different requirements based on mode
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General Ledger Coding
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Customized logic for applying freight funds to appropriate business units, cost center, etc.
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Customer Business Rules
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Rules for approving payments
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Data Management
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Cleansing data
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Normalizing data
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Validations
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Systems Integration
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TMS
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ERP
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Custom file feeds for accounting and finance
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Payment Optimization
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Pay carriers based on different business rules
Freight Payment Cost Drivers
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Exception Management
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General ledger coding logic issues require manual intervention to assign proper codes
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Business rules for invoice approval like third-party shipments, accessorial charges, etc.
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Match-pay process failures when purchase orders or bill of lading numbers do not match order file
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Data validation failures for things like cost centers, shipping locations, etc.
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Dispute Resolution
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Freight invoice errors when carrier billed amount does not match rated amount
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Payment and settlement issues when carriers are not paid according to terms
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Payment remittance information issues which prevents carriers from properly applying cash
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Not all carriers use web portals to address disputes so other methods must be used
New Technology & Services
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Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) using Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technology to resolve disputes and minimize exceptions
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API technology for web calls to carriers for documents like POD’s, BOL’s, W&I report, etc.
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Web calls to customers ERP or TMS for match-pay process eliminates the need to send/receive and manage order files
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Digitizing invoices and documents to eliminate paper and optimize workflow
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RPA technology to capture data from invoices, supporting documents, etc.
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Response Bots being deployed to minimize human intervention for customer service
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Leveraging sourceorder data by sending shipment information to carriers or trading partners electronically
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Optimizing carrier payments, pay to terms, pay electronically, which provides 100% transparency for financial safeguards
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Web portals for more collaboration between shippers, carriers and freight payment company to resolve disputes
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More powerful business intelligence (BI) tools that can pinpoint specific ways to reduce costs
Some New Developments
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TMS or shipment file pickup data is now being used for invoicing by some carriers
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LTL rate structure has more dimensional-based rating
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Dimensional-based rating causing more re-weighs and overweight and overlength accessorial charges
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Cost per cubic foot causes more reweighs
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More accessorial charges for over dimensional and overlength shipments
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With the growth in e-Comm final mile rating can me more complicated with numerous accessorial charges
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Shippers need to review General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR) to ensure they are compliant in the European Union
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Brexit will drastically change the landscape in customs documentation, compliance and VAT taxes